Lee DeWyze Quotes

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world.' So I said, 'Well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing.'

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be - not the best female guitar player, not the best 'X amount of years' guitar player, or whatever - just the best guitar player.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.

I've never been a great lead guitar player.

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it's not an easy road at all.